Thanks all for your replies. The following changes saved lot of time and now mails are processed within 5 sec :) I was trying to sendmail to gmail account. here is wat my host file looks like.. # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost TESTSRV 192.168.11.50 TESTSRV ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 173.194.79.27 gmail.com 173.194.79.27 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com ~ Thank you all for your help... On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Raj, can we assume you've monitored /var/log/maillog on the various servers > in the chain to see if any helpful messages exist? That's where I'd start > see if sendmail has anything specific it is complaining about. > On Jul 29, 2012 11:24 AM, "raj sourabh" <rajsourabh1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am using a sendmail for sending alerts and notification from RHEL > server > > 5.5. But the sendmail process is very slow and it takes around 2 minutes > to > > complete. > > > > Is there any way i can make it faster? > > > > Thanks in advace. > > > > Regards, > > Raj > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list